The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-05-19
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stszT The streets of Los Angeles, Cal. are
being paved with granite.
Tailor-made suits for women. grow
more and more masculine.
General Boulanger has been called
'.Bonaparte without a victory"
There are 49O, 900 unmarried men in
Paris against $50. 600 married men.
The naturally beautiful society lady
hhas become good deal of curiosity. |
J. B. Lippincott, of Philadelphia,
left an estate valued at nearly $3,000,- |
coo.
There is talk OF moving the capital
of Washington territory from Olympia
to some other point.
Il $4,000 Young Mems Christian
association building is about to be
erected at Los Angeles, Cal.
Young Charles Dickens has signed a
contract to deliver fifty readings from
his fathers works in this country, be-
ginning about Oct. l.
DIR. w. Searle, who attended Rev.
Henry Ward Beeeher in his last i'll
ness, was formerly prominent homeo-
pathic physician in Troy.
Mr.. Beecher wrote letter less than
b week before he died in which he said:
Il am perfectly well. and wonder
whether shall ever grow old.
JEFF Davis expenses at Beauvoir are
very heavy, SO many people come to
visit him. The old man finds it very
difficult to make both ends meet
The President has prejudice against
ssclub men," He says: Il don't know
that ever knew of a club man who
ever overcrowded himself with work.
There is a rich man in the Black
Hills, says the Bismarck Times, who
dates the beginning of his fortune from
the day when he sold his wife for $4,-
900.
Report has it that Senator ingalls,
still preserves the first fee he ever re-
ceived as lawyer, namely, table and
high desk, made by carpenter
client.
Louis Seasongood, one of the wealth.
lest Hebrews of Cincinnati, is about to
start bank in New York. He came
to Cincinnati with peddler's pack on
his back.
An Oregon lobbyist has sued firm
for nearly thousand dollars damages
for certain services alleged to have
been performed by him during the last
session of the legislature.
An unhappy New York bachelor is
the one who was to have had an art
reception in his rooms, but whose
creditors took his collection and post
poned the reception.
The initial velocity of the 1900
pound projectile, recently fired twice
with 1000 pounds of powder from the
new 1OO-ton gun intended for the
British ship Benbow, was 2,128 feet
per second.
ssCastle Stewart" the great house
built by Senator Stewart, of Nevada,
when he was known as the Silver
King, is now advertised for sale-the
Chinese embassy being about to enter
new quarters.
Messrs. Chew, Swallow, and Hunger.
ing were recently guests at San
Francisco hotel, while Messrs. Fish,
Bacon, Plum, and Cooke were located
at another house. The hotels should
have pooled their guests.
Most of his time Bronson Alcott
spends sitting in an easy chair by the
window. He cannot recognize any
one who passes by on the street, bu
salutes them all, SO as to be sure of no
,neglecting an acquaintance.
The number of French people in tn.
western hemisphere is 344, 900, divided
chiefly as follows: United States, log,
s72; Mexico, 10, 600; Hayti, Is, 600; Chilli
1914; Argentine Republic, l53, 900
Uruguay, 1870; Brazil, 6,10S
Senator Jones of Nevada is agail
rapidly pushing to the front rank o
millionaires. His mines in Alask;
are proving much richer than hereto
fore represented, and the stock is nov
paying dividend of 800 per cent 1
year.
E. J. (..Lucky'') Baldwin recent,
told San Francisco reporter that h
owns 1000 acres of land. and is will
ing to sell 5000 acres upon the out
laying borders of his ranch for 500
per acre. Strangely enough, the re
porter did not purchase.
Walton Dwight, who died in 1873 a
Binghamton, N. T., had insurance
policies ON his life amounting t
$25O.O The companies conteste,
the payment of these policies, allegin:
fraud. Claims amounting to $105, 5,0O
have now been settled by the paymen
of $4,000
One of the most expert and &C
complished whist players in Milwaukee
is q young lady well known in societ
and art circles. She has organized
several large classes for instruction
into the intricacies of the game
and receives 81 lesson from eacl
Of her fair pupils.
New parlor-cars of to-day are sup
piled with bathrooms, barber-shops
and libraries of novels, periodicals, an,
60, I,
doubt that the safety appliances o
roads are not so carefully prepared a
its Injuries, travelling would be NOR
convenient than staying at home.
A Grass Valley newspaper is re
sponsible for the statement that rat
in some Idaho mines became so hungr
during recent shutdown of nearly
month that they managed to unscre1
drills, and satisfied their hunger b
sticking their tails into the oil an
then sucking them.
Certain well-known localities i
Lynchburg, Va, are known as DO
Alley, "Buzzard Roost, Hog Yard,
and Horse Heaven" and now som
OF the people there are asking that th
name of Cork street be changed t
Dairy Lane
Presidential names will be we'll REP
sented in the Fiftieth Congress. Their
will be a Washington, an Adams,
Taylor, and Hayes. Washington
who is from Tennessee, will be tn
first of the name to sit in Congress
For many years the letter Y has bee
unrepresented in Congress, but it ca
now boast the two names Yoder an
Yost.
The fair ladies who are usually presen
at the Queens drawing-rooms max
such a chatter that her Majesty ha
had the barrier which separates then
from those who pass before her Sc
back ten feet. The royal nerves ar
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